The shell has 1,5 nuclear and 5 postnuclear whorls. Outlines of the shell moderately convex; a = 0.321; lip sharp, thickened behind, continued round the top of the aperture as a thick callous pad. Colour greyish- or orange-brown, with a broad white (anal) band below the suture; the lower half of the base is also white. On the lower halves of the whorls there are dark brown lines (on the body whorl 6), coinciding with spiral grooves. The protoconch shows 3 weak spirals. At first sight the species resembles Decipifus kristenseni. A colour form differs in being all brown; a few of these specimens show below the suture a band of a slightly lighter colour. Several specimens collected at Aruba's west coast. Type locality: Aruba, west coast.
The species is named after frere Fredericus Verberne, a shell collector at Aruba, who has worked together with the authors on this book, mostly by supplying shells from Aruba.